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ILLINOIS -- CLINTON

President Clinton beat Bob Dole by an even wider margin than his 14-percentage-point victory over President Bush in 1992.

Representative Richard J. Durbin, a seven-term Congressman from southwest Illinois, won the contest to succeed Senator Paul Simon, a 67-year-old Democrat who is retiring. He defeated Al Salvi, a wealthy conservative whose opposition to abortion and gun control and other positions led many voters to consider him too extreme.

Mr. Durbin's victory carried a stiff price for Democrats as John M. Shimkus, a Republican County Treasurer, won Mr. Durbin's seat in the 20th District, which includes Springfield, the state capital. Mr. Shimkus beat Jay C. Hoffman, a Democratic State Representative.

Democrats balanced that loss by taking back the House seat for the Fifth District, which covers Chicago's northwestern suburbs. Dan Rostenkowski, the disgraced former Ways and Means Committee chairman, held the seat until two years ago, when he lost to Representative Michael Patrick Flanagan, a Republican who was 31. Rod R. Blagojevich, a Democratic State Representative, had little trouble this year in beating Mr. Flanagan, who had gone to Washington without a clear agenda and who had trouble raising money for his campaign.

Indiana has voted for a Democratic candidate only once since 1932 -- for Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964 -- and so it was little surprise that Bob Dole won its 12 electoral votes.

But it was a measure of his weakness that even in one of the nation's Republican bastions, President Clinton polled strongly and the Democrats held ground.

In a tight race for Governor, the Democratic candidate, Lieut. Gov. Frank L. O'Bannon, defeated Stephen Goldsmith, the Republican Mayor of Indianapolis. The victory allowed the Democrats to keep the Governor's office being vacated by Evan Bayh, a popular party member stepping down after the maximum two terms.

In the House races, the Republicans held on.

The Democrats and organized labor took aim at two freshmen Republicans, Representatives David M. McIntosh and John Hostettler, but they withstood challenges.

PRESIDENT

99% reporting

Clinton -- 874,668 -- 42%

Dole -- 995,082 47%

Perot -- 218,739 -- 10%

GOVERNOR

99% reporting

O'Bannon -- 1,075,342 -- 51%

Goldsmith -- 977,505 -- 47%

IOWA -- CLINTON

Iowa gave the Democrats much cause to cheer, with voters handing the state's seven electoral votes to President Clinton for the second election in a row and re-electing a veteran liberal Senator.

Senator Tom Harkin, who campaigned for a third term on his support for abortion rights and increasing the minimum wage, overcame a strong challenge by Representative Jim Ross Lightfoot, a six-term Republican.

Connie McBurney, a former television weather forecaster, came short in her bid to upset Representative Greg Ganske, a freshman Republican, in the Fourth District.

PRESIDENT

100% reporting

Clinton -- 615,732 -- 50%

Dole -- 490,949 -- 40%

Perot -- 104,462 -- 8%

SENATE

99% reporting

Harkin -- 629,162 -- 52%

Lightfoot -- 568,329 -- 47%

KANSAS -- DOLE

As expected, the Republican Presidential nominee, Bob Dole, won his state's electoral college votes, and Kansans again elected two Republican Senators, one to fill the seat vacated by Mr. Dole, despite a split in state party unity.

Mr. Dole's sudden retirement from the Senate in May to concentrate on his campaign set off a bitter race to fill the remaining two years of his Senate term. Sam Brownback, a Republican House freshman, won the primary, but not without angering party moderates.

But Mr. Dole's position at the top of the ticket and the traditional Republican hold on Kansas politics helped Mr. Brownback defeat his Democratic opponent, Jill Docking.

Representative Todd Tiahrt, a freshman Republican, became the state's senior House member.

A vigorous auto industry and a strong economy left Michigan residents feeling kindly this year toward incumbents. After a costly election campaign in which organized labor, big business and the national parties spent millions of dollars, voters chose to re-elect President Clinton, Senator Carl Levin and all but two of their 16 Representatives in Congress. Ronna Romney, a conservative Republican who opposed abortion and gun control in her run against Mr. Levin, had difficulty reaching beyond her rural base of support.

The A.F.L.-C.I.O. and the Republican Party poured money into the House race for the Eighth District in central Michigan, one of the nation's most closely watched contests. Representative Dick Chrysler, a freshman Republican, lost his seat to Debbie Stabenow, a Democratic state legislator.

With most of the votes counted, a state referendum allowing the construction of three casinos in Detroit appeared likely to be approved. Detroit has been losing tourists for years to casinos in Windsor, Ontario.

PRESIDENT

99% reporting

Clinton -- 1,941,126 -- 52%

Dole -- 1,440,977 -- 39%

Ross Perot -- 326,751 -- 9%

SENATE

99% reporting

Levin -- 2,137,668 -- 58%

Romney -- 1,463,639 -- 40%

MINNESOTA -- CLINTON

President Clinton's success never appeared in doubt in this traditional Democratic stronghold, now the only state to vote Democratic in the last six elections. But the fight for the Senate seat held by Paul Wellstone was one of the most competitive in the nation -- and one of the nastiest.

Mr. Wellstone easily prevailed in a rematch against the Republican former senator he narrowly defeated in 1990, Rudy Boschwitz. He did so despite a barrage of negative advertisments by Mr. Boschwitz and the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which repeatedly called the Senator ''embarrassingly liberal.''

The outcome appeared to show the limits of negative advertising. According to one poll before Tuesday's vote, 44 percent of those who saw the advertisements said they made them more likely to vote for his opponent. At the same time, Mr. Boschwitz's approval ratings sank, while Mr. Wellstone's rose.

In the House races, Democrats held seats they narrowly won two years ago, but so did the Republicans. In one of the most competitive races, Gil Gutknecht, a freshman Republican singled out by Democrats and labor as vulnerable, fended off a challenge by Mary Rieder, an economics professor.

PRESIDENT

98% reporting

Clinton -- 1,096,355 -- 51%

Dole -- 751,971 -- 35%

Perot -- 252,986 -- 12%

SENATE

97% reporting

Wellstone -- 1,093,734 -- 50%

Boschwitz -- 897,305 -- 41%

MISSOURI -- CLINTON

Missouri delivered its 11 electoral votes to President Clinton by 7 percentage points, a narrower margin than the 10-point cushion in Mr. Clinton's victory over George Bush.

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The first-term Governor, Mel Carnahan, coasted to victory over his Republican challenger, Margaret Kelly, the State Auditor.

Most House incumbents won re-election easily, including James M. Talent, a two-term Republican who won a rematch with a former Democratic Congresswoman, Joan Kelly Horn. But Representative Harold L. Volkmer, a 10-term Democrat, fell to his Republican opponent, Kenny Hulshof. Mr. Volkmer had defeated Mr. Hulshof by only six percentage points in 1994.

PRESIDENT

100% reporting

Clinton -- 1,024,817 -- 48%

Dole -- 889,689 -- 41%

Perot -- 217,103 -- 10%

GOVERNOR

100% reporting

Carnahan -- 1,223,315 -- 57%

Kelly -- 865,932 -- 40%

NEBRASKA -- DOLE

Although Nebraska began the election season with two Democratic Senators, it is a conservative state and proved to be a Republican stronghold this time around.

When Senator Jim Exon, a three-term Democrat, announced his retirement, the Democrats were able to persuade Gov. Ben Nelson, who is enormously popular in the state, to run for the open seat. But the victor was the Republican, Chuck Hagel, an Omaha businessman.

Both candidates ran on conservative platforms, although Mr. Hagel's campaign was noteworthy in that it featured earnest and explicit support for Bob Dole's call for a large Federal tax cut. Both candidates presented themselves as abortion opponents.

Only once since 1944 has a Democrat carried North Dakota, and that was in the Johnson landslide of 1964. George Bush carried the state easily four years ago, despite a strong showing by Ross Perot, who took 23 percent of the vote. And though a poll in mid-October showed President Clinton ahead, North Dakota held true to form this year, giving its three electoral votes to Bob Dole.

Democratic Congressional candidates have always fared better in North Dakota than Democratic Presidential candidates have, perhaps reflecting the state's populist, agrarian history. Both Senators, Byron L. Dorgan and Kent Conrad, are Democrats, as is the state's House member, Earl Pomeroy, the only member of the Congressional delegation up for re-election this year. And despite the strong showing by Mr. Dole, Mr. Pomeroy cruised to re-election.

Mr. Pomeroy won by emphasizing his moderate voting record and arguing that his challenger, Kevin Cramer, would push a radical Republican agenda.

Gov. Edward T. Schafer, a Republican, easily won a second term against Lee Kaldor, a member of the State House.

PRESIDENT

100% reporting

Clinton -- 106,405 -- 40%

Dole -- 124,597 -- 47%

Perot -- 32,594 -- 12%

GOVERNOR

100% reporting

Kaldor -- 89,078 -- 34%

Schafer -- 174,337 -- 66%

OHIO -- CLINTON

President Clinton won Ohio, though the race tightened a bit toward the end. No Republican has won the White House without Ohio in this century, and its bellwether status continued.

The main suspense for the state involved Congress, where the Republicans captured four House seats from the Democrats two years ago. These freshmen were all vulnerable along with a sophomore, Martin R. Hoke, whose comments about a female journalist's anatomy weakened him.

Mr. Hoke lost to Dennis J. Kucinich, a Democrat, who as a 32-year-old Mayor of Cleveland presided over his city's bankruptcy two decades ago. Mr. Kucinich is currently a State Senator.

Representative Frank A. Cremeans of the Sixth District in Appalachia looked to be the most threatened of the Republican freshmen as he faced Ted Strickland, a Democrat, in a rematch.

In their 1994 race, Mr. Cremeans's margin was just two percentage points. And Mr. Cremeans narrowly lost his seat in a contest regarded as a referendum on the Republican agenda, which Mr. Strickland, a psychologist who held the seat from 1992 to 94, criticized as hurting working people and the poor.

The three other Republican freshmen -- Steve Chabot, Bob Ney and Steven C. LaTourette -- all retained their seats. Representative Tom Sawyer, a five-term Democrat who squeaked to victory last time, fended off a challenge from Joyce George, a Republican who is a former United States Attorney and state judge.

PRESIDENT

100% reporting

Clinton -- 2,100,690 -- 47%

Dole -- 1,823,859 -- 41%

Perot -- 470,680 -- 11%

SOUTH DAKOTA -- DOLE

In one of the toughest Senate races this year, Larry Pressler, a Republican, became the only incumbent to be dismissed by voters. He was defeated by Representative Tim Johnson, a Democrat.

Mr. Pressler, the chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, was seeking a fourth term. A close contest had been expected but there was no gauge of the situation until late last month, when the first independent poll in the race showed Mr. Johnson with a 10 percentage point lead.

Mr. Johnson, who was elected to Congress in 1986, had accused Mr. Pressler of blocking campaign finance reform and of not supporting farmers strongly enough. Mr. Pressler had accused his opponent of supporting ''Washington's failed liberal philosophy of tax-and-spend versus South Dakota's conservative, common-sense values.''

The race was followed closely by national party officials. South Dakota's other Senator is Tom Daschle, a Democrat and the minority leader.

Mr. Daschle's longtime staff director, Rick Weiland, lost the fight for Mr. Johnson's old job, the state's lone House seat. The victor was John Thune, a Republican businessman and onetime aide to the former Senator Jim Abdnor.

Bob Dole won a tight race for South Dakota's three electoral votes.

PRESIDENT

100% reporting

Clinton -- 139,295 -- 43%

Dole -- 150,508 -- 46%

Perot -- 31,248 -- 10%

SENATE

100% reporting

Johnson -- 166,511 -- 51%

Pressler -- 157,912 -- 49%

WISCONSIN -- CLINTON

With a booming economy and a lack of major controversies, voters in Wisconsin maintained the status quo, re-electing all Congressional incumbents.

As expected, President Clinton beat Bob Dole. Although Mr. Dole gained in the polls in the state as the election neared, he still all but wrote off Wisconsin after the Republican convention this summer.

In the First Congressional District, the Republican incumbent, Mark W. Neumann, a supporter of Newt Gingrich and the Contract With America, defeated his Democratic opponent, Lydia Spottswood. In the Second District, the Republican incumbent, Scott L. Klug, defeated the Democratic candidate, Paul R. Soglin. Mr. Soglin had sought to tie Mr. Klug to Mr. Gingrich by morphing Mr. Klug's image into that of Mr. Gingrich in a television advertisement. Mr. Klug countered with a commercial in which his image was morphed back from that of Mr. Gingrich.